Hyper, Broken, and Artificial

How (Not) to Communicate about Climate Change

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ID13100653
AuthorsMarco Dehnert (0000-0002-7456-0743, Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume9
Issue2
Pages541-553
Publication date2023-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2023.2232001
OpenAlexW4385638328
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited36

This rhizomatic essay maps the communicative-geographical dimensions of our current cultural moment in relation to climate change communication, which characterizes climate as hyper and broken, proposing the artificial as the fix to this brokenness. Drawing on more-than-human sensibilities of communication geography, I work through three intricately connected modalities of current cultural discourses in relation to climate. First, hyper allows me to locate an implosion of scale in the context of the hyperobject of climate change. Second, broken asks questions about the dialectical tension between whole-ness and broken-ness, a longing for a nostalgic past and an urgent futurity. And finally, artificial engages the seeming solution to this broken-ness as it lures on the horizon of our perception: I argue that our flight into the realms of techno-solutionism do not absolve us from being concerned with the current planetary moment as the artificial is very much grounded in the material.本文采用联通主义的形式, 描绘了气候变化的传媒地理, 认为气候具有过度和破碎的特征, 应当采用人工方法来解决这种破碎性。根据传媒地理的超人类敏感性, 我研究了三种错综复杂的气候文化论述模式。首先, 对于气候变化这个超对象, “过度”使得我能够寻求尺度上的内爆。其次, “破碎”提出了整体性和破碎性之间的辩证矛盾: 怀念美好的过去、期待紧迫的未来。最后, “人工”诱导了我们的认知, 它似乎解决了破碎性问题。但是, 由于人工主要以物质为基础, 所以技术解决主义并不能免除我们对地球的担忧。Este ensayo rizomático hace la cartografía de las dimensiones comunicativo-geográficas de nuestro momento cultural actual en relación con la comunicación sobre el cambio climático, que caracteriza al clima como híper y quebrado, proponiendo lo artificial como la receta para aliviar esta ruptura. Apoyándome en sensibilidades más-que-humanas de la geografía de la comunicación, hago mi trabajo a través de tres modalidades intrincadamente conectadas de los discursos culturales actuales en relación con el clima. Primero, lo híper me permite localizar una implosión de escala en el contexto del hiperobjeto del cambio climático. En segundo término, lo quebrado formula preguntas acerca de la tensión dialéctica entre la totalidad y la ruptura, un anhelo por un pasado nostálgico y una futuridad de urgencia. Y, por último, lo artificial compromete la aparente solución a esta ruptura en la medida en que brilla en el horizonte de nuestra percepción: Arguyo que nuestra huida hacia los dominios del tecno-solucionismo no nos exime de preocuparnos por el momento planetario actual puesto que lo artificial ya está muy arraigado en lo material.Key Words: artificial intelligenceclimate changecommunicationhyperobjectsscaling. : 人工智能气候变化传媒超对象缩放 : cambio climáticocomunicaciónescalahiperobjetosinteligencia artificial ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the editorial staff for their helpful comments that have significantly improved this manuscript.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarco DehnertMARCO DEHNERT is a Doctoral Candidate and Graduate Teaching Associate in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. As a multi-method social scientist, his research interests include human-machine communication, human-AI communication, and the social impact of communication technologies

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